When it comes to applying to dental school, after your personal statement, your dental interview is probably the next biggest thing. Amongst the wide variety of preparation that you must do for your interview, one of the essential things is to practice some interview questions. This post aims to provide you with some insight into some questions and a long (but not exhaustive) list of questions that could come up at your dental school interview!

1. Why do you want to be a dentist?

Always a key question and make sure you can answer it well.

What brought the spark of dentistry into you? It may be the practical nature of it, it may be interacting and working with so many different people. It could even be that you like the combination of science and design.

You need to get across your passion for the subject to convince the interviewers.

NEVER EVER say that you want to be a dentist because of the money.

2. What have you done to investigate dentistry?

This includes all the range of work experience, reading and whatever you may have done.

For anything you mention try to include what you did, where and what you learnt.

Also, try to link back to how it informed your decision to do dentistry.

3. Why dentistry and not medicine?

Another common question and one that is quite difficult to answer

For this, you will really have to think of your own drive for choosing one over the other. It may be that you have experience in both and decided that dentistry was better suited to you. It could be the fact you tend to build long-term relationships with patients over the years.

Try to make this unique to you and not something generic.

4. What are the qualities of an ideal dentist?

There are, obviously, many qualities that are required but it is crucial that not only do you know these qualities but you can demonstrate how YOU have these qualities.